🌎4/1 - April Fools’ Day

April Fools' Day is an annual custom on 1 April consisting of practical jokes and hoaxes. Jokesters often expose their actions by shouting "April Fools!" at the recipient. Mass media can be involved in these pranks, which may be revealed as such the following day. The day is not a public holiday in any country except Odessa, Ukraine, where the first of April is an official city holiday. The custom of setting aside a day for playing harmless pranks upon one's neighbor has been relatively common in the world historically.

Following is the famous hoaxes by BBC.
The BBC broadcast a film in their panorama current affairs series purporting to show Swiss farmer picking freshly-grown spaghetti.
The BBC announced that Big Ben’s clock face was going digital in 1980.
The BBC uploaded fake video named ”Flying Penguin” in 2008.

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